On 3/26/21 2:58 PM, Steve Malikoff via cctalk wrote:
OK thanks for that. I just had a browse and read that "Whirlwind used the same paper tape format that was popular with Teletype machines" so I gather it's nothing special after all.
the best picture i have at hand of what a ww tape looks like is on the right of http://bitsavers.org/bits/MIT/whirlwind/X4222.2008_Whirlwind_ptp/pictures/start_of_sort_20180724/8.JPG you can see it is narrower by one punch than a normal 8-channel tape